Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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